Google’s official App Engine documentation gives a very complete webapp Task Queue example. But if you’re rolling django-nonrel (like Framee), you might have a hard time finding a good example. Here is the little test-case I made while I was learning. To set up a skeleton task queue that you can play with, make two [...]

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When you’re working on your local version of your Google App Engine app, you might see an error that looks like this: AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘ROOT_URLCONF’ Chances are, you just finished monkeying around in your local App Engine Development Console. Stopping and starting the app from the Google App Engine Launcher resolves [...]

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Just a quick one here that would have saved me some time – if you’re using Google App Engine’s local development environment, and you use something like: f = urllib2.urlopen(serving_url) …you’re liable to get an error that looks something like this: Download Error at (your URL) ApplicationError: 2 timed out This error occurs because the [...]

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